catherine poarch
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catherine poarch
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Nothing More
Trying to get back to just writing instead of thinking too much beforehand.
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Only a bird
In its wings were African skies. Its eyes dark glimmers of the Northern sea.
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Fathomless
Up from the great and fathomless...
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Whittling Words
I am carving my words from the Willow, from the Apple Tree and the Oak, from the stubborn and ancient forests that defied the Norman Yoke. I am...
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I confess I'm more of a dog
Posted on Sat, 13 Jan 2018
I confess I'm more of a dog than a cat person - unless they're Big cats! - but this is lovely. Effortlessly long sentences with interesting ideas like the ferry bit or the clock bit. And you've captured the rhythm of the cat's purring throughout...
Read full commentPosted in finding peace
What a reawakening. I liked
Posted on Wed, 27 Dec 2017
What a reawakening. I liked this a lot and looked up where Tobermorey is - looks beautiful. Really liked the line about losing the arrows. Lovely ending.
Read full commentPosted in A Time for Living
I really like this - how the
Posted on Sat, 23 Dec 2017
I really like this - how the lines are spaced out, the imaginative words and how it makes you think of things.
Read full commentPosted in Adaptibility
Really clever. I like this a
Posted on Sun, 12 Nov 2017
Really clever. I like this a lot.
Read full commentPosted in The Color of Light. by MarciaMarcia
I think this has struck a
Posted on Sat, 25 Nov 2017
I think this has struck a chord with all of us. It's very clever, seems well thought out even though you say it's automatic. I sometimes think that so many children are unhappy in school and aren't aware that each other is. It can be a cruel...
Read full commentPosted in School (Automatic poem)
Congratulations. I liked this
Posted on Thu, 06 Jul 2017
Congratulations. I liked this, it has the pace of someone sitting back in a chair on a veranda. I like how you are writing easily and feeling surprised by that. Probably the way we write best is the one that comes naturally so just go with it...
Read full commentPosted in Tail-end
Great reply. And I think our
Posted on Wed, 19 Apr 2017
Great reply. And I think our confusion/reluctance/apathy is all down to PR lies, over the centuries, you can see it from the Norman oppression of the Anglo Saxons to the British Empire. So yes, keep telling the truth.
Read full commentPosted in You always knew: a poem for the death of progressive politics and the passing of the Welfare State
I loved this. At the moment I
Posted on Fri, 29 May 2015
I loved this. At the moment I have a heap load of characters stuck in a tardis sized plot which is floating aimlessly through space. I am now concerned that they are all talking to each other and there is going to be some sort of rebellion and...
Read full commentPosted in About the advert
I loved this. Is he real? I
Posted on Mon, 23 Jan 2017
I loved this. Is he real? I loved the 'drank lager grew bitter'. I always like wondering what the child was llike with old people or what the old person will be like for the child and you've done the whole sweep of his life in a short, nail on...
Read full commentPosted in Dave Swakeley is Dying
I love the stillness of this
Posted on Fri, 09 Dec 2016
I love the stillness of this and the faith of knowing something's there when you can't see it.
Read full commentPosted in Fog!
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